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Comment by user00012-ab | Hacker News Reader

I click on "discover some interesting posts" and none of them were interesting; same issue I have with most everything on reddit, all the posts are "I POSTED!"

The only reason I bring this up is because it is a "Platform for Hackers" but none of the posts really reflect anything like that. Just seems like another new site where people post the "I'm on this site now, and setup a default page" and then it never really goes beyond that.

There was some pub/bar themed Gemini site awhile back, and every new post was some variation of being in a virtual pub; again, nothing interesting and I moved on.

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That's the majority of everyone's first blog posts ever though. It's nothing wrong with this platform, that's just what people's first blog posts look like.

Most people write 1 blog post, saying they have a blog, and then never write any more. That's fine.

Any new blogging platform is going to first attract users who are new to blogging: everyone who is not new to blogging already has their blog set up, so unless they're particularly unhappy with it there is no reason for them to use a new blogging platform.

It was mostly an "Old man yells at cloud" post. I'm always excited about small communities online, since in theory they aren't pandering to the lowest common denominator, so there is a chance they could have more specific and interesting content, like back in the day when magazines could target a specific group of people and have in depth articles on tech, instead of today where they have to write for the lowest common denominator to reach the most people for ads.

The blogs https://erock.prose.sh/ and https://ben.prose.sh/ do have substantial content. Maybe give it some time?

That's good to know, ""discover some interesting posts" should be a curated list of things like that to get people in the door.

Well, it’s obvious that it’s just linking to the “recent posts” page and that you’re supposed to discover for yourself what you find interesting.

So there is a new content platform on hacker news almost weekly if not more. I doubt most people are going to sort through a ton of "my first posts" posts on each new platform to look for something interesting.

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